The Democratic governor, flanked by Democratic leaders at the Sacramento press conference, said he felt compelled to act on Wednesday because he was being asked to approve California’s revised method of lethal injection, which would likely lead to the dismissal of legal challenges to executions in California. With 25 prisoners on death row having exhausted all of their appeals, the state was on a path to execute more people than any other state in modern history, Newsom argued.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 13, 2019 19:06 UTC